The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 22, 2019

This entertaining romp through the tech stack serves as an introduction to how we think about and design systems, the Netflix approach to operational challenges, and how other organizations can apply our thought processes and technologies. Technology advancements in content creation and consumption have also increased its data footprint.

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Brendan Gregg

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

My personal opinion is that I don't see a widespread need for more capacity given horizontal scaling and servers that can already exceed 1 Tbyte of DRAM; bandwidth is also helpful, but I'd be concerned about the increased latency for adding a hop to more memory. Ford, et al., “TCP

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The Morning Paper

JUNE 13, 2019

HotOS’19 is presenting me with something of a problem as there are so many interesting looking papers in the proceedings this year it’s going to be hard to cover them all! The following figure highlights how just one of these variables, batch size, impacts throughput and latency on ResNet50. HotOS’19. Usability expectations.

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Smashing Magazine

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

To do that, you develop a personalized design style, including a certain combination of colors, typography, spacing, animations, and others, and apply the style consistently throughout your site. They can also take part in the unique design so that visitors browsing your site will immediately recognize it simply by looking at the content.

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The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 22, 2019

This entertaining romp through the tech stack serves as an introduction to how we think about and design systems, the Netflix approach to operational challenges, and how other organizations can apply our thought processes and technologies. Technology advancements in content creation and consumption have also increased its data footprint.

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The Netflix TechBlog

JUNE 13, 2023

Our previous blog post presented replay traffic testing — a crucial instrument in our toolkit that allows us to implement these transformations with precision and reliability. One can perform this comparison live on the request path or offline based on the latency requirements of the particular use case.

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HammerDB

DECEMBER 5, 2020

The HammerDB TPROC-C workload by design intended as CPU and memory intensive workload derived from TPC-C – so that we get to benchmark at maximum CPU performance at a much smaller database footprint. For TPC-C this meant enough available spindles to reduce I/O latency and for TPC-H enough bandwidth for data throughput.

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All Things Distributed

AUGUST 16, 2011

There are different considerations when deciding where to allocate resources with latency and cost being the two obvious ones, but compliance sometimes plays an important role as well. The Cloud First strategy is most visible with new Federal IT programs, which are all designed to be â??Cloud Cloud Readyâ??; Subscribe to this weblogs.

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Percona

MARCH 29, 2023

Compression in any database is necessary as it has many advantages, like storage reduction, data transmission time, etc. Storage reduction alone results in significant cost savings, and we can save more data in the same space. When this data block is read, it decompresses it in memory and presents it to the incoming request.

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Scalegrid

MARCH 14, 2024

Public Cloud Infrastructure Third-party providers run public cloud services, delivering a broad array of offerings like computing power, storage solutions, and network capabilities that enhance the functionality of a hybrid cloud architecture. We will examine each of these elements in more detail. It should offer user-friendly operation.

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The Netflix TechBlog

MARCH 7, 2023

We designed a unique concept called Annotation Operations which allows teams to create data pipelines and easily write annotations without worrying about access patterns of their data from different applications. But we cannot search or present low latency retrievals from files Etc. This is obviously very expensive.

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Percona

APRIL 17, 2023

The CFQ works well for many general use cases but lacks latency guarantees. The deadline excels at latency-sensitive use cases ( like databases ), and noop is closer to no schedule at all. By default, most Linux installs use the CFQ ( Completely-Fair Queue ) scheduler. Two other schedulers are deadline and noop.

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The Netflix TechBlog

OCTOBER 27, 2020

The data warehouse is not designed to serve point requests from microservices with low latency. Therefore, we must efficiently move data from the data warehouse to a global, low-latency and highly-reliable key-value store. As most key-value storage engines support efficiently deleting a namespace (e.g.

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The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

In the time since it was first presented as an advanced Mesos framework, Titus has transparently evolved from being built on top of Mesos to Kubernetes, handling an ever-increasing volume of containers. This blog post presents how our current iteration of Titus deals with high API call volumes by scaling out horizontally.

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Scalegrid

JANUARY 12, 2024

While managing cloud workloads offers numerous benefits, it also presents several challenges such as security risks, compliance issues, and resource optimization, which can be addressed effectively with tools like ScaleGrid, offering features like encryption, disaster recovery, and real-time resource optimization for diverse databases.

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The Netflix TechBlog

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

Before designing a solution it’s important to understand the main product requirements for such a feature: The content needs to be new, relevant, and regional (not all countries have the same catalogue). We need to be able to easily determine what imagery is present for a given platform, region, and language.

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The Netflix TechBlog

MAY 5, 2021

To support such use cases, access control at the user workspace and project workspace granularity is extremely important for presenting a globally consistent view of pertinent data to these artists. Data Store Characteristics Netflix Drive relies on a data store that allows streaming bytes into files/objects persisted on the storage media.

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Scalegrid

DECEMBER 16, 2019

We ran performance tests for MongoDB on DigitalOcean vs. AWS vs. Azure and found that DigitalOcean performance was in line with, if not better, on both high throughput and low latency in the deployment. DigitalOcean Droplets. The most basic Droplet is their Standard instance which uses shared CPU starting at just $5/month.

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Dynatrace

DECEMBER 22, 2019

AWS offers a broad set of global, cloud-based services including computing, storage, networking, Internet of Things (IoT), and many others. Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3). Metrics for each service instance are presented in detailed charts—see the example for ECS below. Amazon Simple Notification Service (SNS). Requirements.

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Dynatrace

DECEMBER 22, 2019

AWS offers a broad set of global, cloud-based services including computing, storage, networking, Internet of Things (IoT), and many others. Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3). Metrics for each service instance are presented in detailed charts—see the example for ECS below. Amazon Simple Notification Service (SNS). Requirements.

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CSS Wizardry

MARCH 3, 2019

This means that, if the Cache-Control: max-age=60 header is still present, the cached file’s 60 seconds starts again. If, however, there wasn’t a new file on the server, we’ll bring back a 304 header, no new file, but an entire roundtrip of latency. We can completely cut out the overhead of a roundtrip of latency.

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Percona

DECEMBER 26, 2023

The collected data is aggregated and presented in a single view. Dashboard example 2: Monitoring in real time These two panels show read/write IO performance to the persistent storage while benchmarking a live run. pg_stat_monitor About pg_stat_monitor is a Query Performance Monitoring tool for PostgreSQL. Happy monitoring!

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Percona

MAY 15, 2023

In short, any data that is written must be consistent with the data present. This operation is quite expensive but our database can run it in a few milliseconds or less, thanks to several optimizations that allow the node to execute most of them in memory with no or little access to mass storage. UUID(), ?, ?, NOW(), ?, ?, ?,?)

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All Things Distributed

JANUARY 18, 2012

a Fast and Scalable NoSQL Database Service Designed for Internet Scale Applications. Today is a very exciting day as we release Amazon DynamoDB , a fast, highly reliable and cost-effective NoSQL database service designed for internet scale applications. Amazon DynamoDB offers low, predictable latencies at any scale. Comments ().

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The Morning Paper

DECEMBER 8, 2019

On the last morning of the conference Daniel Bittman presented some of the work being done in the context of the Twizzler OS project to explore new programming models for NVM. Therefore any programming abstraction must be low latency and the kernel needs to be kept off the path of persistent data access as much as possible.

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The Morning Paper

MARCH 17, 2020

Based on these findings, the authors present four guidelines to get the best performance out of this memory today. higher latency and lower bandwidth)… We have found the actual behavior of Optane DIMMs to be more complicated and nuanced than the "slower, persistent DRAM" label would suggest. Optane DIMMs are here!

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All Things Distributed

JUNE 21, 2018

Further, with the growth and scale of Amazon.com, boundless horizontal scale needed to be a key design point--scaling up simply wasn't an option. This doesn't mean relational databases do not provide utility in present-day development and are not available, scalable, or provide high performance.

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Database AWS Games Latency 167

Abhishek Tiwari

NOVEMBER 3, 2018

When it comes to innovation, most of CMS solutions are constrained by their legacy architecture (read strong coupling between content management and content presentation) which makes it difficult to serve content to new types of emerging channels such as apps and devices. Without knowing we created a JAMstack for our client.

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O'Reilly Software

APRIL 30, 2018

When designing cloud architecture, it’s critical to consider that your applications could be affected by failures and that you must be prepared to respond to those failures quickly and effectively. Modern hybrid applications typically utilize public cloud components, including content delivery networks and cloud storage.

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Cloud Traffic Internet Internet 68

Alex Russell

APRIL 29, 2021

Chrome has missed several APIs for 3+ years: Storage Access API. Apple's policy against browser engine choice adds years of delays beyond the (expected) delay of design iteration, specification authoring, and browser feature development. Where Chrome Has Lagged. Offscreen Canvas. TextEncoderStream & TextDecoderStream.

Media 145

Media Games Education Engineering 145

Alex Russell

MARCH 6, 2021

A then-representative $200USD device had 4-8 slow (in-order, low-cache) cores, ~2GiB of RAM, and relatively slow MLC NAND flash storage. This 2GiB RAM, Android 9 stalwart features the all-too classic lines of a Quad-core A53 (1.4GHz, small mercies) CPU, tastefully presented in a charming 5.5" The Moto G4 , for example.

Performance 124

Performance Network Cache Metrics 124

Adrian Cockcroft

NOVEMBER 11, 2019

Another problem is that a design control, intended to mitigate a failure mode, may not work as intended. Collecting some critical metrics at one second intervals, with a total observability latency of ten seconds or less matches the human attention span much better. Hence, one way to reduce risk is to make systems more observable.

Latency 52

Latency Engineering Systems Hardware 52

Alex Russell

JULY 14, 2021

The benefits to apps that adopt WebView-based IABs are numerous: WebViews are system components designed for use within other apps. Here, native apps are doing work related to their core function; storage and tracking of user data are squarely within the four corners of the app's natural responsibilities. But third-party developers?

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Google Mobile Engineering Internet 121

Adrian Cockcroft

NOVEMBER 11, 2019

Another problem is that a design control, intended to mitigate a failure mode, may not work as intended. Collecting some critical metrics at one second intervals, with a total observability latency of ten seconds or less matches the human attention span much better. Hence, one way to reduce risk is to make systems more observable.

Latency 53

Latency Engineering Systems Hardware 53

The Morning Paper

MAY 28, 2019

The resulting system can integrate seamlessly into a scikit-learn based development process, and dramatically reduces the total energy usage required for classification with very low latency. One such possible representation is pure analog signalling. Introducing race logic. Race logic encodes values by delaying signals.

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Highly Scalable

MAY 1, 2012

This approach often leads to heavyweight high-latency analytical processes and poor applicability to realtime use cases. This process is illustrated in the following code snippet: class LinearCounter { BitSet mask = new BitSet(m) // m is a design parameter void add(value) { int position = hash(value) // map the value to the range 0.m

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SQL Server According to Bob

JANUARY 11, 2020

​​ Because Microsoft must respond to changing market conditions, it should not be interpreted to be a commitment on the part of Microsoft, and Microsoft cannot guarantee the accuracy of any information presented after the date of publication. This White Paper is for informational purposes only. and ​​ 2000.

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